Roadmaps provided by NVIDIA reveal the 8800 Ultra will launch on May 1 with a price point of $999. The company would not reveal further specifications about the card, other than it is based on the same G80 core found in the GeForce 8800 GTX.

The $999 price point suggests the 8800 Ultra may actually be two 8800-series cards in one package. NVIDIA launched the multi-PCB initiative GeForce 7950 GX2 last year as the last high-end push on the GeForce 7000-series GPU.

The GeForce 7950 GX2 was actually two GeForce 7900 GT processors on two PCBs in an SLI configuration. Running two of these cards in a PC was essentially the same as running Quad-SLI.

NVIDIA likely added the card to its roadmaps to combat the upcoming Radeon X2900-family GPUs. The ATI R600 GPU was scheduled to launch in late March, but soon after the company canceled its launch events and moved the official date into Q2 2007.

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atually you have it backwards - the higher the octane the SLOWER it burns...to prevent knock (pre-detonation)...Octane requirements have more to do with compression ratio and charge temperature than with revs.